A vortex relocation scheme for tropical cyclone initialization in advanced research WRF

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3298-3315

  Hsiao, Ling Feng ^a   Liou, Chi Sann ^b   Yeh, Tien Chiang ^a   Guo, Yong Run ^c   Chen, Der Song ^a   Huang, Kang Ning ^a   Terng, Chuen Teyr ^a   Chen, Jen Her ^a  

^a CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; ATMOSPHERIC FLOWS; CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAUX; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; MASS COORDINATES; MODEL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; POSITION ERRORS; TOPOGRAPHICAL EFFECTS; TRACK ERRORS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VERTICAL VORTEX; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; RELOCATION; RESEARCH; STORMS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; VORTEX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77958451195     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3275.1     Document Type: Article

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